Clothing-table.



PATENTED MAY 2, 1905.

0. J. STAFFORD.

CLOTHING TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22,1904.

IHVE HTOR AfTORHEY:

NITED STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

CURTIS J. STAFFORD, OF BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO JGI-IN OSWALD, OF BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA.

CLOTHlNG-TABLE,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 788,856, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed March 22, 1904. Serial No. 199.494.

To all whom it Wen/y concern.-

Be it known that I. OURTIs J. STAFFORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bakersfield, in the county of Kern and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothing-Tables, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to provide a table adapted for the purposes of displaying and holding goods in which access is more readily had to the goods-holding space therein than could be had by the tables of ordinary construction. I accomplish this object by the table described herein and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in whieh Figure 1 is a perspective view of my clothing-table with the drawer in which the clothes are held or stored partly open. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

In clothing-tables of common construction the top thereof is fixed rigidly to the frame thereof, and the drawer in which the clothing is held or packed away is movable in guideways affixed to the frame and is pulled out from under the top when it is desired to produce clothing therefrom and is pushed back again under the top when returned to its proper place, thereby necessitating the withdrawal of the drawer to almost its full extent in order to obtain easy access to the clothing stored therein.

With my improved clothing-table both the top thereof and the drawer move, so that it is only necessary to move the drawer approximately one-half the usual distance in order to obtain free access to the contents thereof.

In the drawings, A represents the ends of the frame of the table, which are secured together in the usual manner by the back B and the cross-timbers C. In the upper edge of the ends of the frame are the grooves or tracks I), which support and guide balls E. These balls provide a rollingsupport for the topFof the table. S cured to the underneath side of the top F and at each end thereof just inside the ends of the frame and on the side are racks Gr. Below the top of the table is drawer H,

which provides a receptacle for holding clothing (not shown) when it is packed away. At

the bottom of the drawer are rollers I, which move in grooves J in the supports J, which supports are secured to the ends of the frame and to the cross-timbers C. The drawer is provided with racks K on the top of the ends thereof, which mesh with pinions L, secured to the ends of the frame. These pinions also mesh with the racks secured to the top of the table and are rotated by the movement of the drawer as it is pulled from beneath the top or pushed under the top, and as they rotate they cause the movement of the top of the table to approach toward the front of the drawer or to recede therefrom. The drawer is provided with an operating-handle M. The top is also provided with a handle N. Downwardly-projecting strip 0 is secured to the top, which contacts with the pinions a little.

before the center of the top has reached the back of the table, thereby stopping the further movement of both the top and the drawer, thus preventing the drawer and top from tipping.

I/Vhen the table is in-the position shown in the drawings, the goods to be packed away are placed in the drawer in the usual manner, and the drawer is then pushed back into the frame, and as it moves backward the racks on the ends thereof cause the rotation of the pinions, which mesh with the racks secured to the top of the table and move it toward the front of the drawer, so that as soon as the drawer is back in the frame the top of the table has been returned to its normal position. When it is desired to display any goods packed away in the drawer, it will be seen that by pulling the drawer only half-way out of its normal position in the frame the top of the table is caused to move backwardly from the front of the drawer a distance equal to the forward movement of the drawer, thereby fully uncovering the top of the drawer when it has been moved half-way out of the frame, so that free access may be had to the contents of the drawer. By this construction it will be seen that the strain incident upon drawers of clothing-tables of the usual construction when fully opened is entirely avoided, and therefore there is no wrack and strain thereon, as is the case with drawers of ordinary construction in the clothing-tables in common use.

It will be observed that the movement of the top away from the front of the drawer will be stopped a little before one-half of the top has been projected back of the table and that balls E support the top and keep it from tipping backward. 7

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A clothing-table having a movable top; racks secured to the underneath side of said top and near the end; a frame; a drawer having racks on the ends thereof; pinions rotatively mounted on the ends of the frame intermediate the racks on the top and drawer, said pinions being adapted to mesh with said racks; a stop secured to said top adapted to limit its backward movement to less than half the width of said top.

2. A clothing-table comprising a frame pro Vided with a movable top; tracks at the ends of the frame near the top, said tracks having grooves in the upper edges thereof; balls in and supported by the groove-tracks of the frame; supports secured to the ends of said frames near the bottom thereof, said supports having grooves in the upper edges thereof; a drawer having rollers mounted in said frame, said rollers being adapted to move in the grooves of the supports near the bottom of the ends of the frame; racks secured to the underneath side of the top of the table and near the ends of the frame; racks secured to the upper edge of the ends of the drawer; pinions secured to the ends of the frame intermediate said racks, said pinions being adapted 

